cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c

[Robert Watson]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-Jan-02 12:14:02 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> >On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>   First cut support for extracting from ISO9660 disk images.
> >>   This seems to be able to extract a TOC and extract files from
> >>   the couple of ISO images I've tested it with.
> ...
> >Very cool -- finally we can extract files from install CD's without root
> >privilege :-).  This will be very useful.
> 
> I agree that Tim's efforts will be useful but it's already possible for
> non-root users to mount CD's as long as:
> - vfs.usermount = 1
> - They can read the appropriate /dev/*cd*
> - They have /sbin in their $PATH
> - They own the directory they are trying to mount over.

I meant specifically an ISO image, and not a CD.  Right now if you pull
down an ISO, say an earlier version of FreeBSD, a Linux CD, or whatever,
and want to extract it, you either have to burn it or mdconfig it into a
device node that can be mounted.

Robert N M Watson